Tag: 3rdspace

Interesting days here on the fourth floor of the Academic Learning Commons at VCU. Today was the roll out of our institution’s first MOOC – Thought Vectors in Concept Space. CogDog (Alan Levine) and Tom Woodward have been creating magic side by side for the past week – developing a single platform in which six… Read more New Courses and New Play Things

In that short period between end of Spring semester, our Online Course Development Initiative, and the start of my summer teaching, I dove into some books: The first was assigned reading. The VCU Center for Teaching Excellence in which I have been a member for the past 8 years is merging with our Online@VCU staff… Read more Two Weeks, Three Books, and A New Role

Over the next two days (thanks to a lot of hard work by Joyce Kincannon), VCU will host its third Online Learning Summit. The Online Learning Summit invites participation from colleges and universities across the Commonwealth of Virginia, and at last count, we expect about two hundred to participate. The Summit theme of “Connections and… Read more Online Learning Summit 2014

Yesterday, Joyce Kincannon and I traveled up the road to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia for their second annual Innovation in Pedagogy Summit. We spend a good deal of our mental energy in our learning center focused on innovation in teaching and learning, and so this was an opportunity to see now another university… Read more Innovation in Pedagogy Summit

As we approach the end of Spring semester in GRAD-602, our students are beginning to submit their reflections on the book they read for the course. They had a choice of five books: Ambrose, S. et. al. (2010). How Learning Works: 7 Research-based Principles for Smart Teaching Bain, K. (2011). What the Best College Teachers… Read more Evangelizing Teaching

Last night, we focused on the role of “assessment” in learning in our GRAD-602 class. We had a good discussion around formative and summative assessment, and potential digital tools that could be used formatively or summatively for assessment. What we did not discuss was the concept of collaboration in assessment. So this morning, Joyce Kincannon,… Read more Collaborative Assessment

Enoch Hale has captured all the questions he, I and others asked during the 30-Day Challenge. See his post at “Day 30!!! – Thinking Directions.” I previously linked to his first 15 days worth..here is his second 15 days..all worth reading: Day 16: What if I taught like I drink beer? Day 17: Why don’t we… Read more The 30-Day Challenge Recap

Jeff Nugent, Joyce Kincannon and I sat down this morning to record a podcast that riffed off of our GRAD-602 class last night. We had continued our exploration of digital practices, focusing on communication and collaboration. We started last week with a Shirky quote last week on the largest increase in expressive capacity ever. Another… Read more Why Networked Learning?

Back on March 5th, my colleague Enoch Hale posted a challenge on his blog: “I want to pose an open challenge: Post an out-of-the-box question about teaching and learning each day for 30 days.” I took him up on his challenge…though I suggested “thirty work days”…to which he agreed. Over the past six weeks, we… Read more 30-Day Challenge – Day 30 – The Questions I Did Not Ask

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I am Britt Watwood, an online teacher recently retired from Northeastern's Center For Advancing Teaching and Learning Through Research. My passions are networked learning and using web technology for learning. I currently teach graduate courses at Northeastern University and Creighton University.
DISCLAIMER: I am a product of my personal learning network and my thoughts are impacted by the many people locally and virtually with whom I have contact. However, the views expressed here in this blog are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of the institutions for whom I teach.

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